Woman in custody in case of two NYU students shot dead during Puerto Rico trip, authorities say
while apparently on a birthday celebration trip this past weekend, authorities said Tuesday.
Police say the woman, who has not been identified, negotiated with police and turned herself into authorities. They say she has a criminal record that includes violent crimes, though didn't detail specifics. It wasn't clear if the woman in custody Tuesday was theShe covered her face and kept her head down as she walked by reporters in Puerto Rico on her way into the station. Her name hasn't been released.
Franco Medina Angulo and Sergio Palomino Ruiz, both Stern School of Business students from Peru, had traveled to Puerto Rico with other classmates on a brief holiday, the university said in a statement. The friends were caught in the crossfire between two other groups of people whom they didn't know outside a nightclub in San Juan.NYU students say the entire campus community has been affected by the sudden loss -- even though who didn't know Angulo or Ruiz personally.
"They're someone you had classes with ... that happens like right there ... that's like, 'Wow, it really kind of hits home,'" one student said. The two MBA students were outside a nightclub in San Juan while on a trip to celebrate a friend's birthday when they were caught in the crossfire between two other groups. NBC New York's Jessica Cunnington reports.
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